Family Spotlight
Why Mandarin?
“I knew that by investing in our children in this way, we were giving them a unique gift that only ZCS could provide. It would be something they could use and enjoy their whole life.” When Ben and Cara Wickstra were deciding on a pre-school for their oldest son Owen, they knew their passion for…
Read MoreZCS Family Spotlight: The Hamilton Family
When Kevin and Kristen Hamilton relocated to West Michigan with their family in the fall of 2020, they did so with their hopes set high on Zeeland Christian. Previously, they’d called central New Jersey home for 14 years, but Michigan drew their attention as they searched for a better educational opportunity for their children. The…
Read MoreThe Osterinks: Beyond the classroom
Our family has been involved with the Mandarin Immersion program at ZCS for over 7 years now. From our initial experiences up to today, we have been blessed to learn and grow new things with each additional year our kids are in the program. Though in the beginning we may have had hesitations around our…
Read MoreThe Moellers: Preparing our children for God’s path
When our oldest was five and ready for kindergarten, it felt like a HUGE leap of faith to start Mandarin full-time. We started asking ourselves: “Is he ready for Chinese? How will he learn English? What if it’s hard?” After a lot of questioning, we realized we needed to change our perspective from asking hesitantly…
Read MoreThe Geurinks: Our Perspective After Eight Years of Mandarin Immersion
Many times throughout recent years we’ve been asked what made us decide to choose ZCS’s Mandarin Immersion program for our children. Our short answer is that we had heard about the benefit of immersion learning and loved the idea of that for our children. Learning that ZCS offered a Christian education in either Mandarin or…
Read MorePhil and Tasha Saladin – Our Military/ZCS Story
Tasha’s Service I served a little over four years as a medic in the Army. I went through basic, medic training and Airborne school, and was first stationed in Germany. In Germany, I served as a medic, and as the unit Armorer. The funny thing about the Army is you never know what job you…
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